Across
- 4. an authorization granted by a government or company to an individual or group enabling them to carry out specified commercial activities, e.g., providing a broadcasting service or acting as an agent for a company's products.
- 6. an association of manufacturers or suppliers with the purpose of maintaining prices at a high level and restricting competition.
- 7. the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.
- 11. the situation prevailing in a market in which buyers and sellers are so numerous and well informed that all elements of monopoly are absent and the market price of a commodity is beyond the control of individual buyers and sellers.
- 12. an extra benefit supplementing an employee's salary, for example, a company car, subsidized meals, health insurance, etc.
- 13. a thing used to tie something or to fasten things together
- 14. Such companies have offices and/or factories in different countries and usually have a centralized head office where they coordinate global management.
- 16. limit commercial use of land in order to prevent oil, manufacturing or other types of businesses from building in residential neighborhoods.
- 17. a state of limited competition, in which a market is shared by a small number of producers or sellers
- 18. a sum of money paid regularly (typically quarterly) by a company to its shareholders out of its profits (or reserves).
- 20. the state of being responsible for something, especially by law.
Down
- 1. a sum of money paid to a patentee for the use of a patent or to an author or composer for each copy of a book sold or for each public performance of a work.
- 2. Something you own
- 3. a government authority or license conferring a right or title for a set period, especially the sole right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention.
- 5. secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy, especially in order to cheat or deceive others
- 8. the maintaining of prices at a certain level by agreement between competing sellers
- 9. the simplest business form under which one can operate a business.
- 10. the action or process of differentiating.
- 15. a raw material or primary agricultural product that can be bought and sold, such as copper or coffee.
- 19. the goods or merchandise kept on the premises of a business or warehouse and available for sale or distribution